Press Release: Commissioner Piebalgs opens the 1st European Wind Day with a strong call for more renewables in the EU

Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has inaugurated the first European Wind Day by breaking a bottle of champagne to a wind generator installed on the occasion in the centre of the European quarter in Brussels. "If we want to reach the ambitious European target for Renewable Sources of Energy we need to develop state of the art technology. The wind generator installed today in Rond Point Schuman is a good example of this: it shows the citizens that wind energy is not dangerous and can produce clean energy in a safe and sustainable way", said Commissioner Piebalgs.